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You guys are underestimating how taxing it is to think scientifically and explain to the dullards how incorrect they are.

Nah.

I'm not sure people understand how huge and influential Halo 2 was and still is. It was probably the most excited that I've ever been for a game and I don't think I'll ever experience that level of anticipation for anything again. Halo was so huge and transcendental that I spent most of my high school years obsessing with my friends over the sequel. A friend of mine and I went to the midnight launch at EB games and I played the campaign through the night. Looking back, it was actually disappointing compared to the first game campaign-wise, even at the time. And though some of the later games were great, nothing really ever reached the heights of exploring Halo for the first time in the first game, with the dynamic sandbox combat that was unprecedented and still feels radical. But the overall multiplayer design, particularly matchmaking, paved the way for how these games would function for the next 20 years. Without Halo 2, you wouldn't have COD 4, and that was really the turning point for better or worse (I'd say mostly worse). It was fascinating to learn that the developers almost dropped that whole system at the behest of Microsoft after it tested poorly, but Bungie believed in it and ended up being completely correct. Halo's gameplay is evergreen, and hopping into the Master Chief Collection in the past couple of weeks cements that. It will always be one of my absolute favorite gaming experiences.

I had always assumed that they would collapse the Portal and Half-Life stories, and Half-Life 3 would feature the portal and gravity gun. Maybe that wasn't unique enough, but it would for sure have made for some incredibly compelling gameplay and physics-based puzzle solving. I'm excited to install HL2 again and see what this update added.

Really? Was that from the David Grusch hearing last year?

Hot take maybe but I don't think a 2D only console could take the top spot.

People are finding a direct link to "aliens", but that's simply not what's being said in these hearings, which are much more focused on the obfuscation of information given that it poses a risk to national security. However, it's clear that they lack the ability to explain what's actually happening, and one very fun and imaginative option to think about (for me at least) would be extraterrestrial visitors. I'm not saying that's what they are or that that's what I believe, but I am happy to keep my mind open. I understand that MTG and Boebert are out there making an ass of themselves saying the same things. I get it, it's not aliens and they're never coming and the universe is empty and everyone is an imbecile, and fuck me I'm a sucker dipshit. But whatever these people have experienced or encountered firsthand that they are discussing here is clearly not all bullshit. And I find it incredibly tantalizing trying to reason through or figure out what could possibly be happening in these ~2% of cases with no explanation.

As the Switch's lifecycle winds down, it seems clear to me that the overall game library is probably the strongest of any Nintendo console. And given Nintendo's software quality dominance in the industry, I think that makes it a top contender for all time best software library on any home console. Nintendo seems to have found incredibly firm footing in order to push out games that embody their unique, boundary pushing design and penchant for fun and immediacy. This has led to what are arguably the best games in many storied first party franchises, new experimental peripherals, and a raft of third party and indie games of a quality that eclipses anything available on older Nintendo systems. Outside of the 5-10 games that I would consider all-time greats on the system, I'm still trying to work my way through the excellent late-life first party games like Pikmin 4, Paper Mario TTYD, Luigi's Mansion 2, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, etc. As I watch the industry deteriorate, I'm so thankful that Nintendo hasn't only not lost their touch, but have seemingly found an entirely new gear, and still continue to push out the most pure and fun videogames in existence.

The lack of curiosity around this subject is baffling to me. There is enough smoke here (and has been for 50+ years) to suggest that something is happening that we can't immediately or rationally explain. These kinds of things stretch the limits of imagination which I find fun and fascinating. We haven't seen an iota of concrete proof, so skepticism should be the default, but in the past several years we have high-ranking government employees with experience saying that there is legitimate anomalous phenomena that we need to evaluate and are being kept from doing so. That's not interesting or worthy of of your curiosity? Based on these hearings, the possibilities seem to be: 1. Domestic technology that far exceeds anything known 2. Adversarial technology that far exceeds anything known 3. Natural phenomena that hasn't been studied 4. Extraterrestrial technology 5. Nothing and these people are lying publicly to congress because...? Which one of those possibilities wouldn't be fascinating?

Surely they're making this all up. Our understanding of the universe is complete and we can now rest easy knowing that there is nothing else to learn or be curious about!

Still waiting for the games to come out this gen. Gonna be any year now hopefully!

I'm going... 17!

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Definitely. It seems like it'll live or die by its gameplay rather than the world or quest design, which sounds like a throwback.